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The Second FAA UAS Symposium, the first to feature the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International as a pivotal partner, is now history. In addition to some well-crafted sessions, panels and discussions, the event boasted an SRO crowd that often required the hosting facility to add chairs to many of the more popular events. ANN scored an interview with FAA Administrator Michael Huerta, who started the event off with some interesting pronouncements... that all the work heretofore conducted to the get the Unmanned community to where it is right now was, ‘the easy stuff’ and then added some stats that provided a strong dose of reality to the assemblage... that there were no
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Our friends at TruTrak Flight Systems have just announced that they are now offering PMA’d autopilot install kits for the Cessna 172 F through R models as well as the Cessna 177. EAA was awarded the STC for the install kits on March 28. TruTrak received their Low Risk PMA, on March 30. TruTrak is continuing to work with EAA on the remainder of the Vizion autopilot approval, which is expected later this summer. TruTrak will begin selling the install kits at Sun-N-Fun in Lakeland, FL. After 25 years and over 700 iterations of one of the most pivotal sport amphib sportplane programs in sport aviation history, the staff and management of Progressive Aer
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